The average 5-minute shower takes 15-25 gallons of water - and a 10-minute shower around 40 gallons.

• By installing more-efficient water fixtures and regularly checking for leaks, households can reduce daily per-capita water use by 30% to about 51.9 gallons a day.
• If everyone in the US used just one less gallon of water per shower every day, we could save some 85 billion gallons of water per year.
• 97% of the world's water is salty or otherwise undrinkable. Another 2% is locked in ice caps and glaciers. That leaves just 1% for consumption by all living creatures, including plants and animals.
• Texas has thousands of miles of rivers and streams, but only Caddo Lake among all our large lakes is a natural one.
• Every glass of water brought to your table in a restaurant requires another 2 glasses of water to wash and rinse the glass. Since nearly 70 million meals are served each day in US restaurants, we'd save more than 267 million gallons of water if only one person in four declined the complimentary glassful.
• You will conserve about 5 gallons of water if you shut off the water while brushing your teeth.
• If Texas does not ensure that there is enough water, model projections show that there will be 1.9 million fewer jobs in 2010.
• An automatic dishwasher uses 9-12 gallons of water, while hand-washing dishes can use up to 20 gallons.